We’ve cut our potato planting severely this year as, thanks to my broken wrist, we haven’t been able to prepare the fields for planting. Instead, we’re focusing on new potatoes as they’re more expensive in the shops and we can choose varieties that we prefer. We’re planting four beds of first and second earlies in [...]
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Gardening in the snow
5 April, 2012
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Snow on the ground doesn’t mean the work stops. The new vegetable beds still need to be dug so we all went out to do what we could this morning. Fortunately, the warm spell a fortnight ago ensured the ground wasn’t frozen beneath the snow, which meant the soil was workable.
Read more Why double dig?
12 March, 2012
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Whenever I mention that I double dig the vegetable beds, someone toddles along to tell me it’s a waste of effort and I should change to single dig or no dig gardening. Well, when I was digging a new bed this afternoon I realised it was a good opportunity to show why several years of [...]
Read more Reorganising vegetable beds
11 March, 2012
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I’ve finally given in and started re-organising the layout of the vegetable patch. When we marked out and dug the first beds, they were set up for me to hoe. I can easily reach the centre of a two-metre wide bed, so that was the width we went with. In the eight years since then, [...]
Read more Growing kale
30 January, 2012
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Crofters have long depended on kale, as well as its brassicae cousins cabbage and neeps (turnips), as it thrives in the Scottish conditions. Ann Dean, in Foudland Slate Quarriers and Crofters refers to the slate crofters who once worked the hills just up from us as living largely on a brose of oatmeal and greens, [...]
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